The Odd Fellows Hall is a historic building located at 516 Main St. in

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. The building was constructed in 1874 as a meeting place for Salmon's chapter of the

International Order of Odd Fellows The Independent Order of Odd Fellows (IOOF) is a non-political and non-sectarian international fraternal order of Odd Fellowship. It was founded in 1819 by Thomas Wildey in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Evolving from the Order of Odd ...

. The

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building was designed in the

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style and features Ionic

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s on its front face. A wooden front designed to resemble

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was added to the building in 1888. The Odd Fellows built a new meeting hall, the

Salmon Odd Fellows Hall The Salmon Odd Fellows Hall is a historic building located at 510-514 Main St. in Salmon, Idaho. The Salmon chapter of the International Order of Odd Fellows built the hall in 1907 to replace their previous building, the 1874 Odd Fellows Hall. Th ...

, in 1907. The original building is one of the few remaining fraternal halls from the 1800s in Idaho. The building was listed on the

National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic v ...

(NRHP) in 1978. The 1907 Odd Fellows building which replaced it is also on the NRHP.

References

Clubhouses on the National Register of Historic Places in Idaho Cultural infrastructure completed in 1874 Buildings and structures in Lemhi County, Idaho

Greek Revival architecture in Idaho National Register of Historic Places in Lemhi County, Idaho {{Idaho-NRHP-stub